page_title: Robert M. McFarlin
section_title: Business activities
hierarchical_section_title: Robert M. McFarlin / Business activities
caption_attribution_description: McFarlin Building, 11 E. 5th St., built 1918. Listed on National Register of Historic Places
context_page_description: Robert M. McFarlin was an American oilman, cattle rancher, philanthropist, and businessman who is best known for amassing a fortune by drilling for oil near Glenpool, Oklahoma with his nephew and son-in-law, James A. Chapman. He was among the early pioneer oilmen who established the state of Oklahoma as a center of the oil industry in the early part of the 20th century.
context_section_description: McFarlin and Chapman had first partnered in 1903, to create the Holdenville Oil and Gas Company, which owned 10 acres (4.0 ha) in the middle of the Glenn Pool oil field. In 1912, after the discovery of the even larger Cushing Oil Field, the two founded the McMan Oil Company, which they sold to the Magnolia Petroleum Company in 1916 for $39 million. In 1918, McFarlin built an office building at 5th and Main in Tulsa, thereafter known as the McFarlin Building. The building still serves as a general office building. Also in 1918, McFarlin and Chapman organized the McMan Oil and Gas Company, which they sold to the Dixie Oil Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of Indiana, for $20 million in 1922. The McFarlin Building at 11 E. 5th Street in Tulsa was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 1979, and its NRIS number is 79002030.
  In 1910, McFarlin, Harry Sinclair and some others organized the Exchange National Bank of Tulsa, which later became the National Bank of Tulsa, and is now the Bank of Oklahoma (BOK).
caption: McFarlin Building in Tulsa, Oklahoma as it appeared in 2008
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